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Jones enjoyed politics and was the friend of many politicians.

Had he not believed that preaching was a higher calling, he might have run for office himself as he was occasionally encouraged to do.

During the 1928 presidential election, Jones campaigned throughout the South for Republican Herbert Hoover against Democrat Al Smith.

Smith, he claimed, would be unduly influenced by the Pope, who Jones said was to Catholics " the voice of God.

" Jones's support for Hoover, though quixotic in 1928, was perhaps the earliest harbinger of the demise of the Solid South.